“Has your practice been a little dry, or a little boring? Maybe you’re playing rudiments…and its just gotten a bit BORING…How do we make this more FUN? How do we make it sound better? Rest assured, there ARE ways to bring meaning to the monotony, and to make joy of the repetition.

“…a good practice regiment is essential for getting better at the drums, and enjoying it along the way. I hand out homework to students all of the time, and I want to make sure they have a structured way of going about it, instead of heading off to the, so to speak, ‘woodshed’ with my practice material, in the dark…” read for more information!

“A big part of song structure is knowing the names of each section. In this, I wanted to briefly outline the different song section names used in most modern day music.”

“…there are different ways you can go about getting the right resources to learn the drums. There are no perfect solutions in anything in life; There are only trade offs and you might be wondering whats available and what might be right for you to learn the drums….I want to provide a cost benefit analysis of the four different types of Lesson Formats…”

“…there are plenty of instructional videos on Youtube. I am even an avid consumer of online material and was a “self taught” drummer for quite a while. I had relied on intuition, and available resources to get me to a point where I could “muscle” my way through a LOTS of stuff. Wanting to take the self made approach is very tempting…”

“So you rage quit the drums the other day? Yeah, this article is for you… I think we’ve all been to a point, where, regardless of what we put into our instrument, we’re not hearing what what we want to hear, or feeling what we want to feel out of our own playing. And this can be very frustrating…”

“…I have even taken recordings of myself, thinking I was KILLING this performance, and then found that I didn’t really sound as good as I had thought I did… Performing to a metronome is a separate skill that needs to be cultivated, and is essential for any modern drummer…”